The Aberdeen Hotel may not have been the first luxury apartment hotel in the Twin Cities, but it...
Twin Cities Area
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St. Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The first road through Anoka County was established in 1835 to aid those traveling between...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Robbinsdale Library
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Women’s City Club In St Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The District Number 50 school in Essig, Minnesota, opened in 1912. Children attend this one-room...
The Little Marais Inn
The completion of Highway 61 along the North Shore in the 1920s allowed vacationers to travel all...
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The End of the Line in Currie
Jordan Brewery Complex
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Welcome To Old Wadena
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Taylor House In Le Sueur
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Little Falls Depot
Historic Franconia
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Church of the Holy Cross
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Finding The Past In Swatara
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Old School In Wolverton
The Milford Monument
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
District 6 School in New Sweden
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Welcome To Cobden
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Remembering Quadna Resort
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Enter Marlon Brando
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Visiting Golden Gate
Meyer School In St Augusta
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Old Brewery In Preston
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Hanover Bridge
Endion Depot In Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
District 48 School Near Delano
Welcome to Hanska
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Endion School In Duluth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Historic Wasioja
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Le Sueur Theater
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Almelund Creamery
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Exploring Sandstone
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Green Lake Mounds
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Welcome To Dotson
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Moving Old Hibbing
Florence Town Hall
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Lost Highway 61
Exploring Ottawa
Red Wing Iron Works
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Duluth Homestead Project
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Moderne New Ulm Library
Dead Good Walks
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
The Woodlawn Cemetery is located at the end of aptly named Cemetery Road in Douglas County. Don’t...
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
When I arrived at the Medo Central Cemetery, I didn’t know much about the history of the area...
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chester Township Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Winter At The Lamar School
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Watts Free Library In Leonard
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Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Carnegie Library In Watertown